It looks like catching only a few hours of sleep contributes to weight gain because burning the midnight oil is often accompanied by snacking. The finding appears online today in Sleep, the journal published by the Associated Professional Sleep Societies…. Read More ›
Shedding pounds is a key element to treating type 2 diabetes, but even with this motivation, many people who want to lose weight have difficulty doing so. Weight loss through Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery along with lifestyle-intensive medical management—diabetes medication… Read More ›
More than one-third of medical students harbor a substantial degree of bias toward obese individuals and many are unaware that they possess such a bias, according to a study published in the journal Academic Medicine Thursday. This mind-set may hinder… Read More ›
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has been busy burnishing his legacy as a fierce public health advocate. He banned smoking in public places, restricted trans fats in restaurants, created sanitary grading in restaurants, required calorie counts to be posted… Read More ›
Recently, a New York Supreme Court judge struck down the soda ban proposed by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg last fall. I’m on record in the JAMA Forum as being against the ban in the first place. But I… Read More ›
By Stacy M. Carter, PhD, MPH, and Helen L. Walls, PhD, MPH Last month, JAMA published a systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and all-cause mortality. The researchers, led by Katherine M. Flegal, PhD,… Read More ›
Does weight loss really have to be the proverbial bitter pill? Researchers in Belgium who’ve studied how receptors in the gut respond to sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and umami taste sensations say the answer may be yes—literally. In a review… Read More ›
